Word: statehood
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Representing the territory's three prevailing political philosophies-for statehood, for independence, and for continuing to exist as a commonwealth-each spoke for 30 minutes and fielded sometimes thorny questions for another hour...
Cartos Romero-Barrel Governor on Puerto Rica, said the agreed with many of Herrion's points, but added that the way to light for equity is to demand the full rights of statehood. And Ruffle Human in Colon, governor of the commonwealth from 1973 to called for economic last moment under the aegis of commonwealth hood...
...free to follow in the path of the blind and the silent, but courageously embraced her moral code in pursuit of restored honor. Incurring no world credit but instead, shallow condemnations, the country rests with cleared conscience, but the memory of the guilt and the commitment to just statehood prevail...
...military bases were never seen as fit targets of war. I would suggest that justice is "mocked" when one-fourth of Israel's population takes to the streets in the name of morality, while the Palestinians have yet to recognize that such a people have a right to statehood. Where, after all, is the Arab "Peace Now" party...
...East war. The delegates, representing 4 million Palestinians dispersed among some 90 countries around the world, had come to make a number of fateful choices. Foremost among them was how to deal with President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace plan. The proposal calls for self-government, though not statehood, for the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in association with Jordan. The U.S. and Israel have both ruled out P.L.O. participation in any peace negotiations, but Washington has urged the P.L.O. to allow Jordan's King Hussein to begin talks with Israel on behalf...